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Work has been insane. There’s just way too much to do and not enough clones of me to do it. I didn’t even get to eat lunch today, although I’ve pretty much been living off of adrenaline the past few days.

On my laundry list of things to do: edit GHRE’s promo video as soon as possible (or over Thanksgiving), drive to Phila, move to Germany, start a company, make another TP film and submit it to SXSW and The Hamptons Film Fest, meet some family members who shall remain unnamed, go back to southern Thailand, visit PW in Peru, learn ICT4D, learn German/Spanish/Burmese/Italian, sign up for a membership at Upham’s Corner Boxing, start training to beat last year’s awesome-but-not-awesome-enough time of 28:18 in the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day 5K Race, write an op-ed on the Burmese refugee situation in Thailand for the Boston Globe with DD, complete with photos, buy my aunt some flowers, start leaving work at a respectable hour, eat a chicken salad shortie at Wawa’s as soon as I get there, get into MIT/NYU/Bremen, get a copy of Peter Hoeg’s latest novel, and save up enough dough to travel internationally for at least 5 years straight….but not necessarily in that order.

It’s raining tonight. The apartment is cluttered and utterly silent. Our oven is still broken and our kitchen ceiling still has a gaping hole in it, but I like living here regardless.

Check out the end — pretty awesome. Man, I wish I was alive 50 years ago.

What have I been doing in the week I’ve been back from Asia? Working, and making this cool film with our production team. Since Tapioca won the 48 Hour Film Project (Boston) this spring, we became eligible to compete against winners from other U.S. cities in this Fall Shootout. The criteria was extensive and totally stupid; nevertheless, we nailed it anyway. All references to Hatuchama and superpowers were, obviously, required elements of the film competition.

This post is a week late, but c’est la teeth.

I felt pretty bad about my earlier tantrum, but apparently Doc felt bad too. “I was thinking about it,” he said, “and I just feel really bad. I know this has gone on a long time, much longer than projected, and you’ve been very patient.”

“Yeah,” I said, “I’ve only had a few major outbursts.”

To make amends, he removed the horrible cement snowman from my bottom canine, removed an extra twisted wire from my top molar, removed a hook that had been cemented on back of the FIC for the past 9 months, and got rid of the latex bands. He also re-glued a brace onto my bottom tooth (rather, an assistant re-glued it, singing Elton John off-key in a Portuguese accent throughout the procedure, which was hilarious) and sent me packing with a heavy wire on top and a medium one on bottom. Everything was fine until about 18 hours later, when I was in P-A-I-N, but it was still that odd familiar oral discomfort that reminds you your teeth are inching ever so closer to perfection…which makes it a little more bearable.

Who knows…a few more months? Maybe I’ll have really straight white teeth to match the snow…